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MAN-30047 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 20 December 2024

MAN-30047 - Contemporary Issues in Management
Coordinator: Moshood Bello Room: N/A Tel: +44 1782 7 33424
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733094

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module seeks to strengthen students' knowledge of business and management in contemporary organizations through a critical and reflective approach. Students will be required to explore key texts, theories, and ideas in relation to their own experiences as students, employees, and consumers. In particular, the module aims to facilitate understanding of the application of theory to organizational practice.

Aims
This module seeks to strengthen students' knowledge of business, management, and organisation. It emphasises a critical and reflective approach to contemporary issues. Students will have to draw on and reflect upon their own experiences of organisations and share them with peers during group discussions.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/man-30047/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

Identify and critically analyse contemporary issues in organisational theory and practice: 2
Reflect upon and assess their own experience of work and organisations: 1
Critically analyse complex issues drawn from current research in business and management
: 2
Apply knowledge of business, management and organization theory to explicate aspects of experiences of contemporary organisations: 1,2

Study hours

Seminars 20 hours
Directed Activities 30
50 hours of portfolio assessment preparation
50 hours of private study

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Group Assessment weighted 40%
2000-Word Group Report


2: Essay weighted 60%
1,000 word essay


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 20 December 2024